Item 68: Weaving Cotton Cloth, Dallas Cotton Mills, Dallas, Texas, 1905

Black and white image depicts a large weaving room. In foreground is a woman weaving at a loom, and in the background are several workers. Weaving is the interlacing of two sets of threads, one longitudinal and the other transverse, so as to produce cloth. The yarn running lengthwise is called warp; the crosswise threads are called filling (in England, called weft). Explanations of the five operations in weaving--shedding, picking, beating up, letting off, and taking up--are on the reverse of the card. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 17.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.